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Fresh

The Tomatometer is 60% or higher.

Rotten

The Tomatometer is 59% or lower.

Certified Fresh

Movies and TV shows are Certified Fresh with a steady Tomatometer of 75% or
higher after a set amount of reviews (80 for wide-release movies, 40 for
limited-release movies, 20 for TV shows), including 5 reviews from Top Critics.

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While there is an acute authorial intelligence informing the transitions between scenes, the steady trot of clipped vignettes comes to seem monotonous and somewhat evasive, a way to move along before anything too hard and hurtful happens.&dash; Sight and Sound - EDIT

Jia and Yu have, unsurprisingly, made a movie of taciturn eloquence, always sure-footed in negotiating its discursive narrative construction, even as it sometimes wobbles at the level of performance.&dash; Sight and Sound - EDIT

It isn't a suspense movie, it isn't a dissection of race relations in the Civil War South, it isn't a bask in the dying light of the agrarian gentry, it isn't even particularly sexed-up and bodice-ripping lascivious.&dash; Reverse Shot - EDIT

With this brash, ludicrous, bludgeoning film Aronofsky has made a work that embodies the pervasive feeling that no domestic fortifications can hold the day against what's on the horizon.&dash; Sight and Sound - EDIT

If much of what I dislike in Bujalski's filmmaking must be accounted for by my objection to the milieu his films travel in, this shouldn't suggest that the filmmaking itself is anything close to competent.&dash; Stop Smiling - EDIT

Detroit succumbs to problems endemic to "Based on Real Events" prestige properties, films that too often are preoccupied with the truth while not feeling entirely honest-the latter being what we should demand of art.&dash; Reverse Shot - EDIT

Ritchie's movie is handicapped by its obedience to the rules of modern franchising, putting aside much of the most potent Arthurian lore to instead tell a protracted Round Table origin story.&dash; Sight and Sound - EDIT

For all the talk of Dumont's rebirth, Slack Bay is of a piece with a larger oeuvre that feels at once grandly uncompromised and absent of any passionate belief to compromise ...&dash; Reverse Shot - EDIT

Gray's cinema is intractable in its devotion to direct petition of the emotions through classical storytelling, and a belief in the powers of collective intoxication and, yes, beauty.&dash; Reverse Shot - EDIT

With an outstandingly icy Casey Affleck as a mournful loner drawn back into his old fold, Kenneth Lonergan's New England community study is a masterful, darkly American account of a heart in the dead of January.&dash; Sight and Sound - EDIT

Lacking anything to disturb its basic binary or to put a complacent viewer momentarily on their back foot, there's little here that lifts the ongoing game of farcical imposture and father-daughter sparring above briskly repetitive actor's exercises.&dash; Artforum - EDIT

Davies has honored the enormous gravity with which she viewed the events and personages that made up her domestic sphere-"I can't imagine myself beyond my family," as she puts it.&dash; Reverse Shot - EDIT

It's not hard to imagine having a hostile reaction to this piece of work, so convincing is it in giving the impression of being tossed off that anyone not paying attention might overlook its calm control and the deep core of pain hidden in plain sight.&dash; Sight and Sound - EDIT

For better or for worse, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is unique, an important movie, a multiplex comedy that doubles as a conceptual art epic.&dash; Stop Smiling - EDIT

[Linklater's] latest is, to borrow from Henry Miller, an "incurably healthy" film, about nothing so much as the pure pleasure of having a body and a mind to play with, and a smorgasbord of opportunities for putting both to work.&dash; Film Comment Magazine - EDIT